Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

humanly challenged

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.90 in modern English

Syllables: hu-man-ly chal-lenged
IPA

32

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Nonhuman; alien, paranormal, or supernatural.

Humorous

Example Sentences

"Robert: It's time we came clean about all our wrongdoings, Johnny. They're monsters now. Johnny: Rgh! Sanguinex: Hold it! We prefer the term "humanly challenged." Sigh, it's hard getting respect as a Dark Blader."
"... And who was it that gave you to our humanly challenged parents?”"
"When humanity is in doubt, as both values and rights are debatable due to an apparent gross dissimilarity between the idea of acceptable personhood and its stark negation, freaks, monsters, and other humanly challenged beings are seldom ..."

Etymology

Modeled after mentally challenged.

Usage

Humorous

Inflected Forms

more humanly challenged (comparative) most humanly challenged (superlative)

Questions

What does humanly challenged mean?: Nonhuman; alien, paranormal, or supernatural.
Where does humanly challenged come from?: Modeled after mentally challenged.

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